Alaya
#368 for girls in 2025, 834 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 915 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,095since 1979
Alaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Alaya has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #368 | 834 |
| 2024 | #362 | 866 |
| 2023 | #409 | 746 |
| 2022 | #393 | 795 |
| 2021 | #350 | 888 |
| 2020 | #338 | 915 |
| 2019 | #394 | 782 |
| 2018 | #616 | 487 |
| 2017 | #659 | 452 |
| 2016 | #703 | 408 |
| 2015 | #728 | 389 |
| 2014 | #805 | 347 |
| 2013 | #800 | 338 |
| 2012 | #817 | 328 |
| 2011 | #893 | 292 |
| 2010 | #1,030 | 242 |
| 2009 | #907 | 300 |
| 2008 | #1,100 | 236 |
| 2007 | #1,308 | 186 |
| 2006 | #1,212 | 198 |
| 2005 | #1,350 | 161 |
| 2004 | #1,654 | 117 |
| 2003 | #1,625 | 118 |
| 2002 | #1,853 | 96 |
| 2001 | #1,476 | 127 |
| 2000 | #2,103 | 77 |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 |
| 1998 | #2,731 | 49 |
| 1997 | #2,481 | 52 |
| 1996 | #2,672 | 46 |
| 1995 | #2,932 | 40 |
| 1994 | #3,168 | 36 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
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| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
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| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
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| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alaya! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alaya is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#438 · 1 in 2,000
- Mississippi#505 · 1 in 2,084
- Maryland#610 · 1 in 3,143
- Michigan#658 · 1 in 3,933
- Indiana#720 · 1 in 4,136
Best ever in a state: #108 in Delaware, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #438 | 10 | 1 in 2,000 |
| Mississippi | #505 | 6 | 1 in 2,084 |
| Maryland | #610 | 8 | 1 in 3,143 |
| Michigan | #658 | 12 | 1 in 3,933 |
| Indiana | #720 | 8 | 1 in 4,136 |
| Ohio | #725 | 12 | 1 in 4,775 |
| South Carolina | #741 | 5 | 1 in 3,790 |
| Virginia | #792 | 8 | 1 in 4,733 |
| Georgia | #915 | 10 | 1 in 5,383 |
| Pennsylvania | #945 | 8 | 1 in 6,917 |
| Arizona | #968 | 7 | 1 in 5,470 |
| Tennessee | #997 | 5 | 1 in 6,356 |
| Texas | #1,176 | 21 | 1 in 7,913 |
| New York | #1,263 | 11 | 1 in 8,775 |
| Florida | #1,354 | 9 | 1 in 9,902 |
| Illinois | #1,692 | 5 | 1 in 13,629 |
| California | #2,019 | 12 | 1 in 19,564 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alaya
- 6 spots since 2024 (#362 → #368)
- 30 spots since 2020 (#338 → #368)
- 360 spots since 2015 (#728 → #368)
- Biggest jump: 222 spots in 2019 (#616 → #394)
- Biggest drop: 123 spots in 2010 (#907 → #1,030)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2020 at #338 (915 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,767 girls born in 2020 were named Alaya (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,927 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 45.5% of all girls named Alaya (5,044) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 41 | #5,911 (1982) | #7,795 |
| 1990s | 324 | #2,481 (1997) | #4,462 |
| 2000s | 1,616 | #907 (2009) | #1,459 |
| 2010s | 4,065 | #394 (2019) | #745 |
| 2020s | 5,044 | #338 (2020) | #370 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alaya in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 9,602 of them was named Alaya, which outranked 94.0% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,209Azariah199
- #1,209Jacklyn199
- #1,209June199
- #1,212Alaya198
- #1,212Emmy198
- #1,212Giada198
- #1,212Jaci198
- #1,222Asha197
- #1,222Drew197
- #1,222Harlee197
Tied with 9 names at #1,212; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.